Quotes By Samuel Johnson

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.